Jazz, swing and blues licks for violin, equipment and software reviews, jazz and blues backing tracks, musical theory, exercises - all for the violinist who wants to try to learn how to improvise and swing like Stephane Grappelli!
Coming from the folk world I've decided to try to learn how to improvise and play swing/jazz on my fiddle (rather late in life) after a 'short rest' of some 27 years(!). This is a depository of backing tracks, licks, equipment reviews etc., that I hope some of you will find useful too if you are attempting Jazz and coming from the folk, classical or country genres.
I've started with a bunch of backing tracks with intros & outros for rehearsal or performance. If you have any requests for backing tracks (keys, tempos, no. of choruses etc.) just send me a message and I'll try to help.
All the tracks are available for download from my BANDCAMP account. They are free but if you would like to donate that would be good too :-)
Happy fiddling
Cha Stew
Jan 2017